{"product_id":"a-room-made-of-leaves-by-kate-grenville","title":"A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go. Sailing for six months to the far side of the globe with a child growing inside her, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll her life she has learned to be obliging, to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":54010988101898,"sku":"9781838851231","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/camera-EAAA5FEB-FE20-47D4-A49A-DE2D6CF74CFB.jpg?v=1793355564","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/a-room-made-of-leaves-by-kate-grenville","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}